# INTRUSIVE

AI-made. Made with AI, as its festival says: “The 2026 edition of the Artefact AI Film Festival — an international competition for short films made with generative AI, organised by Artefact with mk2.” ([its page](https://artefact-ai-film-festival.com/), read 2026-11-12).

By Andrea Mattia Grieco, Massimo Vavassori, Massimo Sciannamea and Michele Vairo, as [Artefact AI Film Festival](https://artefact-ai-film-festival.com/gallery) names them.

A white-collar man in his forties loses his job in a cold, brief meeting. He leaves the office and starts the long walk home through a rainy city: the metro, the escalators, a busy intersection, the stairwell of his building. At every step his mind betrays him. Violent intrusive thoughts burst onto the screen with the full weight of reality — a push on the platform, a stranger, a mother with a pram — and then are rewound and erased, as if they never happened. He keeps walking, shaken, trying to stay in control. When he finally opens the door of his apartment, the line between what he imagined and what he did has dissolved. INTRUSIVE leaves one question open: is he fighting not to act, or is the film hiding what has already taken place?

Plays in Vimeo's player, on Vimeo, by the link its maker gave the festival: [watch it there](https://vimeo.com/1234442689).